Re: Considering the removal of ntpdate
On Thu, 23 Apr 2009, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> As described in bug #514318 and elsewhere, the upstream NTP Project has
> deprecated the ntpdate program a long time ago, and it may be time to drop it
> from the Debian distribution.
> Most of the functionality of ntpdate is now provided by ntpd (stepping the
> clock without threshold, stepping the clock and exiting without running the
> server). The only exception that I'm aware of is that ntpd doesn't support
> the use of an outgoing unprivileged port (ntpdate -u).
I regularly* use ntpdate -u -q -d (unpriv, query, debug). It's useful
for debugging or just querying other ntp servers. Does the ntpd suite
provide anything with similar functionality?
Cheers,
weasel
* well, occassionally
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